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The Spike: or, Victoria College Review, October 1906

4. Matriculation—

4. Matriculation

In addition to this guild or union of doctors and masters into which graduates were received, there was also a guild or union of students, a voluntary association established by the students themselves for their protection, assistance, and government. The reception of a new member into this students' union was called matriculation, and corresponded to the reception of a graduate into the doctors' union. These two bodies—the professorial board and the students' association—working together sometimes in concord and often without it—constitute the primitive elements of the University. Governing bodies superior to them both, such as councils and senates, are a later innovation, by reason of which we have fallen away from the glorious liberty which our forefathers achieved and handed down to us.